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Most people who think games aren't fun anymore fall into 3 camps.

1) Only play COD/Madden/FIFA crew: they've been playing the exact same games for 15+ years without branching out and have finally realized that annual installment games are stale.

2) they are legitimately depressed.

3) they've just aged out of gaming and don't have the time for the hobby.

Gaming is no worse than binging on Netflix, reading a book, etc. At the end of the day, we're all wasting time chasing dopamine.

"Gaming is no worse than reading a book"

What the ****.

well?

OK, so I had to watch the video twice because I was distracted by work. The main point I got from it is that you should branch out to other genres if you are bored of playing the same type of games all the time. Not everything has to have good combat for me to love it. For example: Planescape: Torment remains one of my favorite story-driven video games, even though I think the combat was very mediocre.


I used to play all sorts of games, even racing games, which I didn't like as much as RPGs. I have a love/hate relationship with souls-type games. I'm really into Ninja Gaiden Sigma and other similar games, but I'm totally ass at them. The game goes from exciting to frustrating way too quickly. Games that rely strictly on how skilled you are are fun only when you adapt and can keep up, but they are sadly not for me.


I have never been efficient at most games, so I stick to playing on normal/easy difficulty in order for them to be fun. I was playing StarCraft: Remastered several months ago and realized it never had a difficulty setting. I used to play it with cheats enabled and now decided to play the entire campaign without cheats and it was one helluva experience, especially the last 3 or 4 missions in Brood War. For the first time, I had to really use all the various units and come up with my own strategies to win. It was pure brow sweat adrenaline, but I somehow managed to beat it in the end and it felt great.



This mission must have taken me at over 6 hours to beat, lmao. I played it on the slowest game speed. The AI somehow knows exactly how to approach you offensively and can see all of your weak points.


Sometimes, playing a game differently brings me great joy. I'm going to try to get into indie games as I have been ignoring them for too long for whatever reason.

"Gaming is no worse than reading a book"

What the ****.

Most people who think games aren't fun anymore fall into 3 camps.

1) Only play COD/Madden/FIFA crew: they've been playing the exact same games for 15+ years without branching out and have finally realized that annual installment games are stale.

2) they are legitimately depressed.

3) they've just aged out of gaming and don't have the time for the hobby.

Gaming is no worse than binging on Netflix, reading a book, etc. At the end of the day, we're all wasting time chasing dopamine.

What?

Show me the lie? If I'm reading a Jack Ryan novel or playing through the campaign of COD, what's really better?

Unless you took that to mean reading a nonfiction book and learning about something, which just goes to show you're an aspie. But either way, at the end of the day we're just wasting time chasing dopamine until we expire boyo. Hobbies is hobbies.

Show me the lie? If I'm reading a Jack Ryan novel or playing through the campaign of COD, what's really better?

Unless you took that to mean reading a nonfiction book and learning about something, which just goes to show you're an aspie. But either way, at the end of the day we're just wasting time chasing dopamine until we expire boyo. Hobbies is hobbies.

Strong attention span. There are insanely few educational games.

Most people who think games aren't fun anymore fall into 3 camps.

1) Only play COD/Madden/FIFA crew: they've been playing the exact same games for 15+ years without branching out and have finally realized that annual installment games are stale.

2) they are legitimately depressed.

3) they've just aged out of gaming and don't have the time for the hobby.

Gaming is no worse than binging on Netflix, reading a book, etc. At the end of the day, we're all wasting time chasing dopamine.

As far as dopamine chasing I think we see an unhealthy trend in gaming that we see in many other aspects of society where people are seeking easy low effort dopamine hits. I find it comical many gamers these days will say games are too hard, immediately switch to easy mode, or simply not finish games. It's behavior similar to scrolling Tiktok, binging TV, taking a "vacation" without having a real job, all these behaviors causing dopamine imbalance. Nobody wants to put any effort in for the reward anymore, it's very unhealthy neurologically. Climbing to the top of the mountain feels much better than having someone drop you off there.